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anctiously

anctiously is the obsolete spelling of anxiously.

Meaning of anxiously

Adverb

anxiously (comparative more anxiously, superlative most anxiously)

  1. In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
    • He anxiously awaited the arrival of his child.

Forms of anctiously

comparativemore anctiously
superlativemost anctiously

Origin of anctiously

From anctious + -ly.

Questions about anctiously

What is anctiously the obsolete spelling of?
Anctiously is the obsolete spelling of anxiously.

Words near anctiously in the dictionary

  1. ANCs
  2. anct.
  3. Anctil
  4. Anctils
  5. anctious
  6. anctiously
  7. Ancus
  8. Ancy-le-Franc
  9. ancyent
  10. ancyl-
  11. ancylid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anctiously (page history and authors); anxiously (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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